Lets celebrate crying!!! haha hopefully this isn't as dumb of a topic as I think it may turn out to be .

For me it was I am disappeared. I don't know it just hit me like a train, I wasn't even sobbing really the tears just kept running and running.
I laughed at myself afterwards, I was quite impressed on how much "tear substance" could come out of my eyeballs

Nice to know it's not just me that FT routinely reduces to a sobbing wreck (the terrible bastard).

Long Live the Queen was the first to have this effect, but more recently Polaroid Picture manages to get me every single time. Being constantly aware of the finite time we have, and how fleeting and transient special moments can be . . . it just . . . you know . . . oh god, is someone chopping onions in here? Excuse me a minute . . . *runs off to sob*

Long live the queen. I remember so clearly when I first heard that song. Even though it isn't mentioned I instantly associated it with cancer. It's always reminded me of my nan. I got this tattoo to combine both songs that make me think of her

darlenet. wrote:Well, the most crying for me was Tell Tale Signs. But the first was Faithful Son.

To elaborate, because, well, I tend to go on a bit. The specific lines that set me off:

Faithful Son: "Father, oh dear father,
I’m not trying to reject the values that you held like winning cards up to your chest.
And I can’t just do the things you wished you’d done,
but I still remain your faithful only son.

Tell Tale Signs: "You know you kind of remind me of scars on my arms that I hid as best I could,
That I covered with ink, but in the right kind of light they still bleed through,
Showing that there are some things I just can't change no matter what I do:"

Anymore was the first cry (don't worry, not cracking open that can of worms on this forum again).

Can't get through it or Redemption (especially when the latter is live). Nights Become Days, Polaroid Picture, and I Am Disappeared at times as well. And although it's technically an MD song, the FT&SS live cover of Smiling At Strangers On Trains.
*sniff*

I might have been crying when he first came out for Eulogy at Leeds Festival 2011; that crowd was brutal.

Seriously though, I'm fairly sure my first FT cry would have been Jet Lag. That one just hit me in the gut from the start and consequently ended up being my favorite and still is.

Biggest cry was probably Longing for the Day ... and there's a very long story behind that involving mountains, October snowstorms and a busted windshield wiper motor, but I'll save that for another thread (if anyone ever starts a "failed road trips" thread).

Must Try Harder and Journey of the Magi have seen a lot of my tears. Tell Tale Signs, Worse Things Happen at Sea ... he's got a lot of good criers, and I put them to good cathartic use.

I can't remember my first ever cry to a Frank Turner song because my following Frank has coincided with the collapse of my 25 year marriage and a struggle to regain some sort of control and happiness in my life. His songs have helped me with that massively and I have cried often; I would thank him with all my heart if I could for the healing.

Last night in Hull he played a new song called, I think, "Rescue Annie". He told the story behind it and I did find myself unexpectedly crying at that.....there's a few emotional songs in the new crop, I think.

I'm glad of the warts and all honesty in all of Frank's work. Sometimes I think that he, with a bit of help front Newton Faulkner, Martha Wainwright and The Editors, actually saved my life. I am sure that's true for many people and I hope Frank's proud

....but the one that gets me most, and my kids I'm sorry to say, is the live recording of Father's Day. But Poetry of the Deed makes it better "Life is too short to live without poetry".....Damn right it is.